Iron Man Armor

Iron
Man
Armor

Creator Tony Stark

Ho Yinsen

Owner Tony Stark

User Tony Stark

Function Protective armor

Status Inactive

Appeared in Iron Man

Iron Man 2
The Avengers
Iron Man 3
Avengers: Age of
The Iron Man
Ultron
Captain America:
Armor is a
Civil War
Spider-Man:
Homecoming
Avengers: Infinity
War
protective suit of armor that was
developed by Tony Stark and created with
the help of Ho Yinsen as a means of
escaping captivity in Afghanistan. Once he
got back to home, he perfected the armor
using the vast resources of his former
weapons factory Stark Industries.

Contents:

History
Iron Man
Tony Stark uses three suits as Iron Man:
Mark I to escape the Ten Rings terrorist
organization, Mark II to perfect flying, and
Mark III out of a gold-titanium alloy with
red highlights to make it less
"ostentatious".

Mark I using the flame throwers

Captured by the terrorist group Ten Rings
to build a Jericho missile for them, Stark
and fellow captive Dr. Yinsen secretly
build a crude but strong power
armor fueled by a miniaturized Arc
Reactor, a smaller version of a power
source previously invented by
Tony's father. The arc reactor also supplies
energy to an electromagnet which prevents
embedded shrapnel from reaching Stark's
heart. Dr. Yinsen is killed in the ensuing
escape attempt when he stalls the guards to
buy Stark enough time to power up the
suit. Using the suit, Stark kills several
terrorists, destroys their weapons
stockpile, and escapes. Mark I was
destroyed as Stark crash-landed in the
desert.

Mark II
Upon returning home, Stark's attitude
shifts radically and announces Stark
Industries will cease manufacture of
weapons, much to the chagrin of Obadiah
Stane. When Stark decides to build Mark
II, he tells J.A.R.V.I.S. that it'll be a secret
project. Utilizing Mark I's blueprints,
Mark II's design was streamlined and
optimized for sustained flight. After
tinkering with thrust power settings and
subsequently developing flight stabilizing
repulsors, Stark dons Mark II for a test
flight against the suggestion of
J.A.R.V.I.S., rather than shutting it down
for diagnostics. After flying over the coast
of Malibu, Stark attempts to break SR-71
Blackbird's record for high altitude flight.
Unfortunately, icing occurs and Mark II's
systems malfunction, plummeting Stark to
a free-fall, forcing him to manually deploy
flaps and restart the suit before nearly
crashing into a freeway. Upon completion
of the test flight, Stark accidentally crashes
through the roof down multiple floors,
destroying his piano and one of his cars in
the process.
Mark III engaged by two USAF F-22 Raptors
Stark then develops Mark III using a gold-
titanium alloy used on Stark Industries
tactical satellites to eliminate the icing
problem. After deciding that a gold
colored suit is a bit ostentatious for his
tastes, Stark orders J.A.R.V.I.S. add some
hot rod red to make the gold less
accentuated. Stark later discovers Stane is
the one secretly supplying the Ten Rings
with Stark weaponry. To make matters
worse, he also finds out the Ten Rings are
attacking a village named Gulmira,
Yinsin's village. Stark, angered by this
news, destroys a small portion of his
workshop with his repulsor, discovering an
offensive capability.
With Mark III now combat ready, Stark
flies to Gulmira to stop the Ten Rings. He
finds Ten Rings member Abu Bakar,
whom he stops and finishes him off.
Within seconds, he defeats the terrorists
and destroys all Stark Industries weapons.
As Stark leaves the area, his actions
capture the attention of the United States
Air Force at Edwards Air Force Base in
California. Lieutenant Colonel Rhodes is
briefed of the situation and contacts Tony,
who claims he was not involved. Stark is
eventually intercepted and engaged by two
F-22 Raptors, Whiplash 1 and 2. After
evading the fighter jets in a brief dogfight,
Stark calls Rhodes and reveals "it was
[him]." Rhodes, initially furious about
Tony sending in unauthorized equipment,
is horrified when Tony explains that the
"civilian equipment" is actually the suit
and himself. After being orded to return to
base, Whiplash 1's pilot discovers the suit
under Whiplash 2's belly and orders
Whiplash 2 to execute a barrel roll,
knocking Stark off. Mark III clips
Whiplash 1's wing and the pilot is forced
to eject. Realizing Whiplash 1's chute has
not deployed, Stark manually deploys it
himself despite being re-engaged by
Whiplash 2. Stark convinces Rhodes to tell
the press the incident was a "training
exercise" to cover up his actions.
Stane arrives at Stark's house and
paralyzes him with a sonic weapon,
confiscating his reactor and taunting him.
After he leaves, Stark struggles to reach
the preserved Arc Reactor that Pepper
Potts gave him in a display case. He
installs the reactor just as Rhodey arrives.
Pepper, Coulson and several other agents
arrive at Obadiah's research facility. They
spot the Mark I Armor (which Stane took
from the Ten Rings after they found it at
the crash site) and a storage location where
something else was kept. Just then, a
gigantic robotic suit comes to life and
attacks them - Obadiah's counterpart suit,
code-named the Iron Monger. Rhodey
watches Stark suit up, awestruck at the
Iron Man suit. As Tony flies away,
Rhodey looks at the Mark II but shakes his
head and mumbles "Next time, baby". Iron
Man reaches Stark Industries and begins to
fight the Iron Monger. J.A.R.V.I.S. warns
Tony that he has only about half power in
the suit; the older power source wasn't
designed to work alongside the newer suit.
The two ironclad warriors have a huge
battle.

Mark III holding a car thrown by Iron Monger.

At first, the battle starts at Stark Industry's
main entrance, but soon they crash into the
city streets. Stane grabs a car and attempts
to throw it at Tony, but the latter catches it
and lets it down safely (getting run over in
the process). Stane then throws Tony into
a parked bus and blows it up with his
shoulder missile. Tony is sent flying, but
activates his boosters just before he lands
in the rubble. Tony is then chased by Stane
into the skies. Stane then grabs Tony, and
gets frozen in the process. Tony breaks out
of Stane's grasp and sends him hundreds of
feet to earth. Tony then loses power,
falling back to earth behind Stane. Both
land on the roof of Stark Tower. Tony
instructs Pepper to overload the building's
Arc Reactor, which will generate a
shockwave strong enough to knock out the
Iron Monger's suit. Pepper is hesitant,
believing that Tony could also be killed.
Tony manages to keep fighting while she
builds up power to the Reactor. The Arc
explodes, taking out Obadiah and injuring
Tony. But the energy wave from the
Reactor also manages to re-charge Tony's
heart battery, saving him from death.
Tony goes before the reporters once more,
and prepares to comply with the cover
story. But, before he even starts
announcing his cover story, he throws
away his notes and declares "I am Iron
Man." His unexpected declaration had
surprised the press and the world.
Iron Man 2
Mark IV unsuiting

The Hall of Armor

With Tony Stark's identity now revealed,
Iron Man participates at the Stark Expo's
opening ceremony, with a demonstration
of his flying abilities and a rock star
attitude. With his Mark IV, he helps
maintaining the world peace, utilizing it as
a deterrent for any terroristic attacks.
Despite pressure from US politicians,
Stark refuses to hand over his armor to the
United States government, declaring that it
belongs to him and him alone.

Mark V
Stark, slowly poisoned by the palladium, is
desperately searching for an alternative
source of power to fuel his Arc Reactor.
While attending a race in Monaco, Stark is
forced to intervene when Ivan
Vanko uses equally advanced tech to cause
destruction at the racetrack. Using
his Mark V armor, Iron Man is able to stop
Vanko, although the armor is heavily
damaged following the fight. Depressed
and despondent on his impending death
and on what could be his last birthday,
Stark hosts a massive birthday party in his
Mark IV suit, drunkenly urinating in it in
response to a question and destroys bottles
and watermelon with his repulsors. Stark's
drunken antics forces James Rhodes to don
the Mark II armor. Rhodey confiscates the
suit after the melee and turns it over to the
United States Air Force for reverse-
engineering and upgrades.
After a hungover conversation with Nick
Fury and treatment from Natasha
Romanoff, Stark begins researching his
father's notes of a new element. With
J.A.R.V.I.S.' help, he "rediscovers" and
synthesizes Vibranium, which is capable
of a higher energy output and solves the
poisoning problem.

Mark VI and War Machine fighting together.

With his new Mark VI armor, he reaches
the Stark Expo, where Justin Hammer's
line of Hammer drones and War
Machine (all controlled by Ivan Vanko)
have gone on a rampage. Iron Man
destroys some drones, but then is forced to
flee, with a hijacked War Machine in
pursuit. When Rhodes is freed from
Vanko's control by Romanoff, a battle
against the remaining drones begins. After
all drones were destroyed by Stark and
Rhodes, Vanko arrives with a suit of his
own, proceeding to overwhelm the two
singlehandedly. In a last ditch effort, Stark
and Rhodes fire their repulsors against
each other, reminiscent of what happened
at Stark's mansion. The ensuing explosion
destroys Vanko's suit. Vanko activates his
suits’ and the drones' self-destruct features
in a final attempt to kill Stark. After
saving Pepper Potts within mere seconds
of the drones exploding, Stark takes cover
on a roof nearby the Expo and Pepper
resigns as CEO, citing she cannot handle
her duties and trying to cope with Tony's
heroic alter ego. {{_}}
Later, Nick Fury informs that, while Iron
Man is a suitable candidate for the
Avengers initiative, Stark himself is not
recommended, with Romanoff's review
cites his compulsive and self-destructive
tendencies and "textbook narcissism."
The Avengers
After Loki infiltrates S.H.I.E.L.D. and
steals the Cosmic Cube, Nick Fury decides
it's time to re-establish the Avengers
Initiative. Agent Coulson travels to the
newly built Stark Tower where Tony and
Pepper are celebrating the successful
creation of a new, clean energy source.
Tony is informed of Coulson's presence at
Stark Tower by J.A.R.V.I.S. to which he
informs him that he has "reached the Life
Model Decoy of Tony Stark" and refuses
to see him. Coulson enters the building
anyway and informs Tony that the
Initiative is now active and they need him
to come in, handing Stark several
holographic screens containing
information about Captain America, Thor,
Bruce Banner and Loki.
Stark suits up in his Mark VI armor and
travels to Germany where he finds his old
acquaintance, Natasha Romanoff in a jet
overlooking the newly unfrozen Captain
America in the middle of a battle with the
hostile god, Loki. Stark jets right in and
blast Loki with his Repulsors and stands
tall next to the Captain forcing Loki to
surrender. After escorting Loki onto the
Quinjet, the team head back to
S.H.I.E.L.D.'s Helicarrier. Stark comments
on Steve’s fighting skills subtly mocks
him. The Quinjet is then surrounded by a
storm and is attacked by the Asgardian
"God of Thunder", Thor who breaks in and
promptly grabs Loki before he flies away.
Stark immediately flies off after the two.
While Thor has landed on a mountain top
and begins threatening Loki, Tony blasts
straight into Thor hurling him onto the
forest floor. Stark refuses to let Thor get
close to Loki and the two began a fierce
battle. During the fight, Thor summons
lightning to his hammer, Mjolnir, and
electrocutes Stark only for J.A.R.V.I.S. to
inform him that this has powered his suit
to 475% capacity, allowing him blast Thor
off his feet. The armor takes a beating
during the battle as Thor easily begins to
crush it. The fight is broken up by Captain
America who after matching Mjolnir with
his Shield manages to stop Thor. They
take Loki back to the Helicarrier where
Tony meets Bruce Banner and they both
discuss the Tesseract but not before Tony
plants a hacking device and allows
J.A.R.V.I.S. to begin searching
S.H.I.E.L.D.'s database to find out their
secrets. Tony and Bruce find out that
S.H.I.E.L.D. were trying to harness the
Tesseract's powers to create weapons of
mass destruction, during a huge argument
with Fury, Romanoff, Rogers, Banner and
Thor, Loki's mind-controlled troops
including Hawkeye had caused an
explosion on the Helicarrier in order to
break Loki out. Stark suits up as Iron Man
and begin to fix the ship from the outside
with the aid of Steve.
Upon fixing the ship and fighting off some
of Loki's troops, the duo learn that Banner
transformed into the Hulk and escaped
from the ship, as well as Thor being
ejected from the Helicarrier by Loki who
escaped and murdered Agent Coulson.
Fury informs the two that the Avengers
Initiative was so that the isolated
individuals could become something more
and that Coulson died still believing this.
Stark takes his death hard and works out
where Loki is planning his attack. Iron
Man, Captain America, Natasha and
Hawkeye (now free from Loki's mind
control) travel to Stark Tower where Tony
finds Loki has installed a device powered
by the Tesseract.

Mark VII
Tony takes off his armor and begins to
"threaten" Loki, secretly putting on two
metal bracelets moments before Loki
throws him out of the window, as he falls
he orders J.A.R.V.I.S. to deploy his new
Mark VII suit which jetpacks out the
window after him and forms around him
moments before he hits the ground. Stark
flies back up to Loki and blast him
backwards in the name of Agent Coulson.
Tony is however confronted by Loki's
device which opens a portal into space
where Loki's army of Chitauri flies into
New York and begin their war against
Earth. Iron Man is joined by his team
mates as they begin to battle the alien
menace. Tony begins to chase after a
Leviathan, a giant alien serpent and the
warship to dozens of Chitauri. When he is
notified of Banner's arrival on the field,
Tony leads the serpent towards him so
Bruce will transform into the Hulk and
defeat it. Tony lands on the ground
alongside his fellow heroes, Captain
America, Thor, The Hulk, Hawkeye and
Black Widow. The team is then confronted
by hundreds of Chitauri who fly in through
the portal as well as several more
Leviathans. Rogers gives out orders and
instructs Tony to take to the skies and take
out more Chitauri. Tony even takes out a
Leviathan by flying head first into it mouth
and launching missiles from the inside.
After a long battle, the team is still
outnumbered and learns that Natasha has
found a way to close the portal. Stark
hinders this as Fury has instructed him that
the World Security Council have sent a
nuclear missile in to blow up Manhattan.
Stark intercepts the missile and flies it up
through the portal and blows up the
Chitauri Mother ship, losing power in the
process and falling unconscious back
through the portal just before it closes. As
Stark falls back to earth, he is caught by
the Hulk who lands with him back on the
ground. Rogers and Thor run over to the
lifeless Iron Man who appears to be dead,
only for Hulk to scream in his face,
waking him up. The team reform and
make sure that Loki surrenders. The
Avengers then make sure Loki is taken
back to Asgard by Thor along with the
Tesseract. The team disbands and goes
their separate ways. Tony is later seen with
Pepper Potts on Stark Tower ready to
rebuild after the damage that was done.
The Stark signs on the side displays only
one remaining letter, "A".
Iron Man 3
After the Chitauri invasion of New
York, Tony Stark created the Iron Legion,
some built for their own specific purpose.
He tests the Mark XLII, which was built so
he can summon various pieces of the
armor when needed. It is shown that
the Mark VII (although severely damaged
after the events of New York) is still in
use. After issuing a public threat to
the Mandarin, Tony was attacked at his
Malibu home. To protect Pepper
Potts from the blast, Tony signals the
Mark XLII onto her in which she saves
Maya. Once she had gotten to safety, Tony
summoned the armor back to himself,
fending off the helicopters surrounding
him. After being out gunned, Stark is
pulled into the ocean and barely escapes.

Tony and Mark XLII.

Tony found himself in rural Tennessee
after J.A.R.V.I.S. followed his initial flight
plan to find the Mandarin. Lacking in
power to return to California, the world
believed him to be dead. Teaming with
Harley, a 10-year old boy, Stark traced the
Mandarin to Miami. Escaping captivity by
summoning his armor from afar, Stark
reunited with Rhodey, discovering
that Aldrich Killian plans to attack
President Ellis aboard Air Force One.
Remotely controlling his armor, Tony
defeated Eric Savin and saved the
surviving passengers and crew but was
unable to rescue Ellis from Killian. Stark
and Rhodey traced Killian to an
impounded oil drilling platform where he
intended to kill Ellis on live television.
Sneaking in, they were attacked by several
Extremis soldiers in which Stark
summoned all 42-armors to their aid
(controlled by J.A.R.V.I.S.), armoring
himself with the Silver Centurion. Finding
Pepper, Killian unexpectedly attacked him
and Stark was forced to bail from Mark
XXXIII When Pepper was presumed dead,
Stark engaged in a fight with Killian
(using Mark XL). Standing over a
platform, Stark (armor less), summoned
Mark XLII onto Killian, trapping him and
ordering J.A.R.V.I.S to let it self-destruct.
When Killian was revealed to have
survived along with Pepper (due
to Extremis), he killed Killian with one
of Mark X's repulsors. Realizing the
current situation, Tony ordered
J.A.R.V.I.S. to destroy all armors,
promising Pepper to find a cure for her, in
which they embrace. Later, Tony
underwent surgery to have the shrapnel
removed from his heart and threw his arc-
reactor in the ocean, vowing that no matter
what, he is Iron Man.